Woman, ex-boyfriend charged with Nightown car break-ins

Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 04:46 PM.

DESTIN - A man and woman were arrested for engineering a series of car break-ins at a local nightspot.

On Jan. 6 an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy working an off-duty detail at Nightown spotted a woman leaning into a vehicle. When she saw him approaching the woman quickly moved away and got into a car with her ex-boyfriend, later identified as Kyle Kriech,25, of Fort Walton Beach.

The deputy noticed the vehicle's window was broken and the contents rifled through. He later found other cars with broken windows.

Kriech and the woman, identified as Heather Tatum of Shalimar, were stopped. They had purses, devices, and a gun taken from the cars that were broken into.

Tatum said Kriech broke into all the vehicles but one. She admitted breaking into a Toyota and taking the following items: A North Face jacket, a GPS unit, a wallet, a purse, an iPhone charger, another wallet and another purse.

Kriech denied breaking into any of the vehicles and said he didn't know what Tatum was doing.

He was charged with armed burglary to a conveyance, burglary to a conveyance (unarmed), larceny under $20,000, and theft of a firearm. Tatum was charged with burglary to a conveyance unarmed and larceny under $20,000.

Both have a court date of Feb. 26.

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DESTIN - A man and woman were arrested for engineering a series of car break-ins at a local nightspot.

On Jan. 6 an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy working an off-duty detail at Nightown spotted a woman leaning into a vehicle. When she saw him approaching the woman quickly moved away and got into a car with her ex-boyfriend, later identified as Kyle Kriech,25, of Fort Walton Beach.

The deputy noticed the vehicle's window was broken and the contents rifled through. He later found other cars with broken windows.

Kriech and the woman, identified as Heather Tatum of Shalimar, were stopped. They had purses, devices, and a gun taken from the cars that were broken into.

Tatum said Kriech broke into all the vehicles but one. She admitted breaking into a Toyota and taking the following items: A North Face jacket, a GPS unit, a wallet, a purse, an iPhone charger, another wallet and another purse.

Kriech denied breaking into any of the vehicles and said he didn't know what Tatum was doing.

He was charged with armed burglary to a conveyance, burglary to a conveyance (unarmed), larceny under $20,000, and theft of a firearm. Tatum was charged with burglary to a conveyance unarmed and larceny under $20,000.